No, Jackson didn't attack the old banking system. He opposed the establishment of a national bank on the grounds that it was unconstitutional,...
I'm sorry, but I can't follow that line of reasoning. When dollars are valuated in gold, how can someone wipe out the gold standard by...
Thanks for taking the time to lay out some things that will help collectors understand a little of how a dealer operates. Dealers have to contend...
I think it's a good idea to buy any silver content coins, period. Right now I'm holding on to about 10 times the junk silver coins I had this...
I doubt that any of this modern circulation coinage is going to be valuable in the future. They're doing billion plus issues and striking them...
We called those "V nickels" when I was a kid. They do indeed still show up from time to time. A lady was telling me about getting rolls of...
I like the 1993 three coin Bill of Rights commemorative series of a silver half dollar and dollar and a $5 gold piece, mainly because it consists...
Hear, hear, Andy. The real heroes in any country are to be found among the citizenry, not among the self serving rascals who run for office....
In Asia and the Middle east, a lot of coin gets made into jewelry, thus the prevalence of 21k gold in arab countries and 23k jewelry in India....
Good advice overall, but one little quibble: half dollars. Periodically, I'll buy all the rolled half dollars a bank has on hand and sort them....
It's hard to imagine what "leaders" of today deserve any "aura of greatness". For one thing, politicians are not our leaders, they're the hired...
No, I didn't mention the graysheet assuming that Erickson is new to collecting, which ( I assumed) would make it a little like a first year med...
I like both of those. Also look around at whoever's near you selling coins. You can get a pretty good picture of what's going on in the market...
OK there's good news and bad news. The bad news is that you can't get the wore out offa your coins. The good news is that I have a sure fire way...
Now, now. I'm sure everyone can think of more kinds of people than that. I can think of a fifth kind: The kind that tries to pretend...
Even experienced dealers can overlook something in their inventory. I recently bought a Barber dime raw graded by the dealer at VF-EF for under...
Well, what's wrong with all those things is that they are not powers granted to the federal government in the Constitution. The programs are all...
Yep, there are sellers on ebay who will misrepresent coins. Ebay is a venue I just won't use any more. I found a few coin dealers there who I'd...
No, it isn't "horsepuckey" at all. Silver colloids were used as antibiotics for decades before the development of sulfa drugs. Silver has...
Pete pulled it. It seems that only our fearless mod, GDJ is allowed to make rude comments here.
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